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I'm at a loss. I got my E8400 early on and plugged it into this GB board and it hit 4.0 without even breaking a sweat @ 1.28vcore. I've got 4X1gb of G.Skill HZ's running at 950mhz and my system is rock solid (backed down my fsb to 475 to put my processor at 3.8ghz for 24/7 use).

I don't have any experience with the Asus Commando board, but the only thing I can think of right now is that memory ceiling is holding you back. The GB X38 board I've got has extremely lax memory timings and that is the only reason I can get my 4X1 kit up to the speed it's at. It could be exactly as Praz said about some really bad scaling Wolfdales out in retail right now, but you won't ever know unless you eliminate memory ceiling as the culprit.

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Well, ill continue clocking efforts around tuesday. ive ordered a OCZ pc2-8500 kit to remove any ram barrier, and then itll show if its the ram that slowed me down or i just got a bad draw on the cpu. if its the ram, ill start doing this for real

btw, the other guy has reacher 3.7 ghz. the tutor also mentioned it was unlikely he could go much higher since his temps were way too high. the ram better be the problem or i have to pay the guy some $200

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Repr , why are you pulling everyone's chain? :mad:This is definetly an April 1st (fool's day) prank (bothering everybody with made-up stories)... Man, I just reached 4.2Ghz 12h stable wth the Commando and an E8400 yesterday on a friend's computer- we used some PQI crap- 2x1GB 800MHz using ~2.1 voltage on em' . Either you're making some kind of joke, or YOU are the joke dude,not being able to break 3.6 ... ))) By the way- we used the iNTEL cooler...